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If the Government Shuts Down and no one is there to hear it does it make a difference? Did anyone miss the government? Outside of the National Park Service using armed park police to prevent anyone from “recreating” on NPS property, I thought the government was starting to...

* BASEBALL AND POLITICS This is from my good friend and fellow Forum columnist Jean Ardell: “Maybe Congress should hire an umpire to settle disputes. This way a Senator or Representative could be called out on three strikes and/or thrown out of the building.” * KIDS...

In 1999, a European company named Allianz bought a 70 percent interest in local money management firm Pimco. They also offered our neighbor, Bill Gross, $200 million over five years to stick around and manage this huge bond fund. He’s still there, so somebody must consider...

Chances are John Wayne never took a yoga class, but his daughter, Marisa Wayne, is such a proponent of yoga that she and three partners (Candice Collings, Matt Bourne and Joe Pham) recently opened a yoga studio on Coast Highway in Newport Beach. The name of the studio? Grit. As...

Halloween is upon us, and like every year I am pondering what or who to be for a party in which most guests usually go all out. My favorite last year was a guy dressed as Fu Manchu complete with the long fingernails. My husband is less enthusiastic and wants to know if putting an...

Halloween is creeping up and the kids are counting down. Using a sharp object to cut up a vegetable without having to eat it and getting candy from strangers are only a couple reasons why October 31 ranks among one the best days of the year when you’re a kid. In our family, my...

The pumpkin patch looked marvelously inviting with the full moon staring down onto it, the silvery light washing the orange skins with an eerie glow. Crows lingered in the far off trees, cawing suspiciously at the tiny swirls of wind that lifted moon-blanched leaves into rolling...

There have been some real characters I’ve had the pleasure to know who made their living on the waterfront. I don’t remember his first name, but a gentleman with the last name of Whitehead was a commercial fisherman and grew up in our area and kept his boat on a mooring adjacent...

“It has been an exciting year, full of twists and turns, but God has been faithful through it all,” explained Bucky Dennis, co-Pastor of Watermark Church. “We just celebrated our first year in September. When you step out in faith and are involved in planting a church, or merging...